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Working as a professional football player is a full-time job. But that's not stopping John Urschel, a defensive lineman with the Baltimore Ravens, from picking up a side hustle. In his case, that's working through a doctoral degree in math at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Adam Epstein of Quartz reports that Urschel plans to study "spectral graph theory, numerical linear algebra, and machine learning."
While Urschel and his colleagues on the Ravens went to the playoffs last year, he wrote a paper titled "A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fielder Vector of Graph Laplacians." Now in an off season, he's back at work on his degree. Quartz quotes Urschel describing his motivation to play:
“I play because I love the game. I love hitting people.”
-via Ace of Spades HQ